The diary starts here!

Street at the back of the house
Ice cream in the Carrefour freezer

taxi (aka flying coffin)

Traffic policeman

satellite dishes

So I finally got round to taking out my camera and discovered, to my horror, it's too sunny and I will need another polarising lens cover. As we haven't seen any camera shops with these sorts of products yet that could be interesting. Anyway if I stand in the shade and take pictures on the sunny setting some of the pictures are ok.

We went up the street and over the road to the Maadi Grand Mall to get money from the HSBC and took a few pictures on the way. Then the next day we went left to look at the street behind us. The man at the veg stall didn't want me to take his picture (he was quite adamant about it) so I settled for a couple of general street scenes. The donkey and cart is quite a common sight, they stop and sell dates, water melons and other stuff by the roadside as well as carrying loads from place to place.

Ramadan has finished now so the clocks have gone forward another hour for daylight saving putting us ahead of GMT by 3 hours. There is a feast at the end of Ramadan where it it is traditional to eat kahe. These are like shortbread biscuits and can be plain or stuffed with dates, mincemeat and other things and then drenched in icing sugar, very nice if a little sweet!

We are going to the Maadi Comunity Church again tonight. We went last Friday and Geoff came with us but waited outside. Well he tried to wait but the police moved him on, so he sat under the streetlight round the corner while the service was on, I don't think he's coming tonight! The music was good but nobody preaches quite like Nick - maybe we'll get there one day :).